During 1960/61 MRC designed and constructed a large, complex Optical Mark Read Scanner for an important customer, Science Research Associates. We were forced to hire quite a few SUI Electrical Engineering students (Juniors & Seniors), and as their supervisor, I became exasperated with seemed to me to be their 'common sense' approach to Engineering Practices, in spite of their good grades. Accordingly, on Memorial Day, May 30, 1961, I sat down at my dining room table for about two hours, and scribbled out a 'tongue in cheek' article which I entitled, "DESIGNING MARGINAL CIRCUITS", that 'defined' the Ten Rules (in jest) to 'succeed' in such endeavors - rather a parody of the kinds of miscues I was seeing my SUI students perform. I showed the manuscript to Theodore 'Ted' A. Hunter, a prominent local electrical engineer, who among his many accomplishments had established the well-known LION CLUB's Eye Bank, had founded the Student Quarterly Journal as a new publication within the IRE Professional organization, and finally, was the President of Hunter Manufacturing Company in Iowa City. Hunter Manufacturing had built Dr. E. F. Lindquist's Mod II and Mod III OMR Test Scoring Machines in Hunter's facility at 108 N. Linn Street, co-occupied in the 'early days' by MRC Engineering. My manuscript was published in the DECEMBER 1961 Issue of the IRE Student Quarterly, a nation-wide publication that was circulated to the major Engineering Colleges and Universities in the U. S., and other subscribers. I should stress that it was not a publication for students' articles, but for practicing professional engineers, scientists, professors, and other scholars to write articles to keep engineering students abreast of the times. U of I's James A. Van Allen, for instance, published an article in an early issue. A few years after my DEC 1961 Article appeared in the IRE Student Quarterly, the Institute of Engineers and the American Society of Electrical Engineers joined forces to become a new consolidated organization known yet today as IEEE, an abbreviation for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The IRE Student Quarterly was renamed The IEEE STUDENT JOURNAL, but serving essentially the same primary purpose as before. The editor of the newly named Journal decided to reprint my original DEC 1961 article in the July 1964 Issue, but with a different set of equally 'light-hearted' graphics included in the 5-page article. My JVM Archival folder on the Media Disc entitled 1961_onward_JVM Publications contains a complete set of JPEG Image files, and several MS Word files associated with these two publications, such as a copy of the original manuscript, image scans of the two articles, an MS Word file with a transcribed text of the article, and other documents. Also, a 26-page hard-copy photo-embedded printout of the two articles and images is included in this U of I Accession